russia says germany stalling the probe into the alleged poisoning of alexina valmy by holding back crucial data moscow's envoy to the global chemical weapons watchdog talks to. through deliberately delaying the process be impeded the completion of the preliminary inquiry in russia that was held in order to ascertain whether there is an offense or not france has voiced their anger over the government's tough new coronavirus restrictions saying they were never consulted. on the pentagon's accused of spending up to a $1000000000.00 of coronavirus funds a military we gauge the public reaction. to what's going on it's part of being an american.

9 pm on thursday here in moscow i want to welcome to world news from monti international russia is accusing germany of using various pretexts to withhold information on the election about the case the russian opposition figure had recently came out of a coma in berlin where he's being treated for a supposed. permanent representative to the global chemical weapons watchdog says all requests for data have so far been tonight he's been speaking to r.t. . the russian federation has been waiting for answers from our german colleagues the general prosecutor's office has sent 2 requests for legal assistance unfortunately we have not received any answers there were various explanations from the german side firstly there were references to national secrets the german said they were afraid of revealing secrets and german technologies during our specialists acquaintance with the results of the analysis in a boon to swear laboratory. then. our german colleagues started talking about the

necessity of the prior approval of look say no bomb these relatives after that they referred to in a volley himself all in all the germans have delayed the response in every possible way through deliberately delaying the process impeded the completion of the preliminary inquiry in russia that was held in order to ascertain whether there is an offense or not and then to start an extensive investigation into the case that dealt with the russian citizen on russian territory. it's like a vicious circle on the one hand german officials said that they were ready to refer the case to the o.p.c. w. and the case becomes a multilateral one on the other hand the o.p.c. w. claims that they will not share the information without the consent of the germans that is why we have taken some measures we've sent a letter to the germans permanent missions to the o.p.c. w. referring to article 9 paragraph 2 we requested the german side to provide us with comprehensive information on a whole range of questions relating to involve these case we are talking about test

results biological and clinical samples and everything connected with this case german colleagues are required to respond within 10 days the countdown has already started a felony has now been discharged from hospital in berlin as doctors say a full recovery is possible but the potential long term effects are uncertain russia and germany meanwhile continue to demand answers over the case. when this figure. is not the responsibility of the german authorities to conduct of this to the crime was committed in russia and that's why i urge into the you to russian side used to comment on the matter. with germany refusing to share samples or in his family's treatment details or later russian investigator talked to him there is no way the russian prosecutors can complete an extra limit reproaching clearly berlin is in no hurry to share all this information although they're demanding the french if they committed action would get the impression the germans are still in free time in finding various pretexts to avoid cherry date data which russia would

believe this is all being. dislike for the idea of being spread in the media that russia does not want to clarify in the valleys illness any such claims are a lie. jimmy claims alexina valmy was poisoned with the substance from the group although the scientists who created the deadly nerve agent to disputing that finding to a political analyst rayner office thinks the circumstances of the poisoning are still shrouded in doubt. we look into what really is a military nerve agent which is highly highly poisonous and dangerous. if it has been applied not only what have died within several minutes after being in contact with that substance so it's not really likely that novacek really was in the play but not in charge of course plays a great role in the narratives in the media narrative for me it's more important to look at the geopolitical backgrounds of the. and the u.s.

american powers are in panic about the fact that the north stream to pipeline is about being finished quite soon so they need to give some pretext to the public to oppose the finishing of this major pipeline project because it would bring germany and russia closer together it was it would strengthen both countries' economical each year politically and therefore there are great great geopolitical geo strategic economic interests to stop this pipeline project. thanks regional leaders in france are pushing back against the government over a new set of tough coronavirus restrictions a raft of new measures were unveiled on wednesday after a spike in case numbers shot to do better to give reports next from paris. well the health minister in france has outlined new restrictions which sparked this war of words on social media between himself and local officials what he announced on

wednesday evening is that 2 departments in france we placed into a maximum alert so that means that from saturday for 2 weeks a limited period we're told there will be a closure of bars and restaurants people won't be able to go out to some public spaces in the 2 areas impacted. and must say now we know that code restrictions have been. people have been unhappy about them in the past but nobody nobody could have predicted the fear is reaction by mark sayes own mare i was astonished and angry with the decision the city of massey did not consult anyone nothing related to the health situation can justify this announcement i do not accept the fact that we are the victims of political decisions that no one understands well other elected officials were equally as angry with the president of one of the local regions impacted describing this as being collective punishment but the health minister hit back and said that he did consult with the local officials before

making those announcements. the decisions announced this evening and won them the measure for the people of must see are aimed precisely as protecting them while all the health indicators are very degraded not so says the regional president 2 says that a call from the health ministry in the moments before these restrictions were announced did not constitute a consultation and he has argued that these decisions were taken unilaterally by the french government now other restrictions have also been put in place for areas such as here in paris paris is now on an enhanced alert area which means that from monday next week buyers will have to shop by 10 pm in the evening they'll be a restriction on gatherings no more than 10 people gathering together in public settings and we know that sort of large scale events like protests where they were allowed to be around $5000.00 people that is now going to be limited to 1000 people

and the local authorities have the right to impose stricter restrictions if they wish to do so this is because the health minister said that the situation across the current tree is deteriorating rapidly. it is increasing sharply the infection rate is constantly rising we are at $95.00 cases per 100000 inhabitants we must take additional measures it is necessary. france has been using a color coded map to show the rates of transmission of 1000 that's pretty much been a green yellow red traffic light type of system but now the red zones have been split into subcategories and if you look at that map now most of the country is in shades of red suggesting that there is a high rate of transmission of co that 19 let's not forget that france is carrying out around a 1000000 tests every week so that rate is likely to go up but what's concerning

the officials is the fact that in the last week there have been 3 days where more than 30. 1000 new cases have been registered and in addition to that hospital admissions have gone up by double to around 1000 and we know that hospitals in france are under strain the health minister is people to abide by the restrictions so continue social distancing wear a mask wash our hands and even suggested that people should tale some of their social activities restricting that all in an effort to try and be the transmission of this virus but as we've seen 2 areas of france including marsay already now in this maximum alert zone and other departments will be looking at the figures and wondering when they are going to slide potentially into that category and face their own mini restrictions and lockdowns for the future. israel's about to enter a 2nd nation wide shut down the plan was approved at

a cabinet meeting on wednesday night after the infection rate double that of 2 week period reporting next from tel aviv his boss lier. and your measures that are being imposed are reminiscent of the lockdown that the country put in place back in march that was the 1st nationwide lockdown and what we're hearing now from prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that a full lockdown will be in place from tomorrow friday until october the 10th he has said that hopefully some of the measures will be eased even sooner now last week we did see the country go into full locked arms it meant that schools were a strong hotels were completely shut but people were allowed out doors for exercise or for gathering for prayer meetings or protests now all of that is being forbidden israel is the 1st country in the developed world to be imposing a 2nd lockdown i mean. the situation is difficult there is a steep rise we have to take decisions the decisions are tough but as prime minister i am a blood to save your lives and you need to understand that there is

a danger to lives and that's why there is no choice but to take the difficult decisions and we will save lives with your cooperation. there has been a recent surge in covered positive cases one day so i record high 7000 people being registered now that has been a heated debate in parliament between netanyahu who is calling for a full lockdown and the rest of his cabinet there are those who are suggesting that netanyahu wants a lockdown because it's a way to silence history tractor's who is asking for complete closure it is not us it is the prime minister i hear the health professionals say the reason the reason for general closure i want to understand why food garage is recommended closure is a last resort and not a solution to demonstrations at the same time this looming lockdown and months to an admission of failure by prime minister netanyahu it was only a few months ago when he boasted that he was the world's best prime minister at

handling the crisis at that time is always one of the 1st countries to seal its borders and imp. those are locked out but soon afterwards it was criticized for opening up its economy too soon and the virus was turned we now have a situation that every week there were protests in front of the prime minister's residence in jerusalem with people calling on the prime minister to resign for both corruption charges and for what they say is his mishandling of the whole coronavirus pandemic. being claimed that the pentagon spent up to a $1000000000.00 of coronavirus funds on military equipment including jet engines and body armor congress this year gave the defense department a $1000000000.00 to battle the coronavirus but the washington post reporting that most of that money went instead on ship building maintenance army uniforms satellites drones and even the space surveillance of the cash was supposed to address funding gaps in the country's coronavirus response the u.s. of course suffered the world's highest number of deaths from the coronavirus it

also comes at a time of severe supply shortages to the u.s. centers for disease control says an additional $6000000000.00 in aid to distribute potential vaccines next year and it's also noted a severe lack of medical grade facemasks the vatican's not directly responded to the washington post story but has defended the way it spent coronavirus funds. we are think for the congress provided also resources that enable the executive branch to invest in domestic production of critical medical resources and protect key defense capabilities from the consequences of curve it we need to always remember that economic and national security a very tightly interrelated in our industrial base is really the nexus of the 2 wheels new yorkers what they made of the scandal many were surprised. i'll be giving money. to. people want the government is the priority always has been the.

citizens were realizing these things. and you know that funding is going towards places that are necessary that will benefit the people is not it's part of being an american preventative medicine professor william schaffner says the spending scandal goes to the very top. obviously we would have preferred those monies go to code relief i would think that this decision to spend the money not on the cold it defense budget. on forces was made at a very high level clearly the diversion of these falls from the public health programs of the united states is very misguided i would think that the appropriate congressional committees would do an investigation to find out why this happened and to correct this if a $1000000000.00 was misused we had better look to the rest also to see how those

monies were expended the distribution of the vaccine is going to be our next major effort here in the united states to stop or to do some control so cold that problem and all of those things will require funding it means that the congress of the united states has to hold the executive branch to account they have to be absolutely. very attentive to how these monies allocated for good purpose are being spent. this is i'll tell you all the way florida's attorney general wants a probe into billionaire democrat mike bloomberg paying off the fines of state felons so they can vote about that i'm cost new reaction for him after the break. fighting at the valuation to get it by cation up stock price times current

number of shares outstanding. knowledge on how to buy back your own stock and pump up those stock prices of executives stock options then you have a higher market cap where you actually didn't create anything for the economy you didn't engage in any capital expense expenditures a cap ex to expand your company in any way then what'll happen is will happen to i.b.m. you know they want to call stock buyback routine then eventually it played out and the company is a shambles or general electric general electric is almost knob saluki out of business by trying to push meaningless instead of products. as a culture war consumes american politics during this election cycle the economy remains in a big serious state millions of people live on the margins the only constant for them is insecurity economists debate individual recovery they speak of the you know

what is the reality the change. permanent. all over again donald trump's accused michael bloomberg of a criminal act over the billionaire democrats plan to boost voter turnout in florida and the upcoming u.s. election kind of open explained. elections in the united states are supposed to be about testing popularity candidates appeal to the public with their ads their speeches and their platform and then the public determines who they like the best it's supposed to be democracy in action money is supposed to have nothing to do with it critics of the united states often point out that the reality is quite different rich people often have a way of asserting their agenda take the latest example of former new york city mayor mike bloomberg he's

a billionaire and he's putting up $16000000.00 to help pay the court fees of black and brown voters in florida who happen to be convicted felons now the former new york city mayor says he is just being generous no political motivations here whatsoever the right to vote is fundamental to our democracy and no american should be denied that right working together with the florida rights restoration coalition we're determined to end disenfranchisement and the discrimination that has always driven it well it just so happens that the courts in florida have ruled that people with felony convictions are not allowed to vote until they have paid off their court fees and fines now until recently they were forbidden from voting for their entire lives so it looks like a lot of black and latino florida residents who have felony convictions are going to get a nice check from mayor bloomberg to make sure that they're able to vote at the polls this november it just so happens that overwhelmingly black and latino people

disapprove of donald trump and his presidency so republicans in florida say this pretty much amounts to bribery i will be calling on the florida attorney general to launch an investigation into mike bloomberg for potentially an gaging in bribery in vote buying in the state of florida bloomberg does not care for donald trump he has laid out cash in florida to maneuver against him before bloomberg recently spent $100000000.00 in the hopes of beating trump when it came to early voting in florida trump shot back at him with his usual style. i thought minimize was through the democrat politics of desponding almost $2000000000.00 and then giving the worst a move in the debate performance in the history of presidential politics no republican has taken the white house without florida since 1924 it's the biggest swing state in the electoral college margins there can be razor thin think about bush v gore back in 2000 in the 2000 election it came down to just

a few 100 votes between the 2 candidates so giving the vote to 32000 convicted felons that could make all the difference it amounts to bribery basically bribing people to vote in a certain way and that is clearly against the law in the united states it's very hard to bring criminal charges against somebody is so fantastically wealthy as bloomberg because somebody like bloomberg will hire the best lawyers in the country to defend him and no government no federal government those government will want to bring charges against someone who's going to hire the best lawyers against any prosecution so it's unlikely that very much will come of this but i think there is a lot there to investigate i mean it's a it's a very dubious activity and you can imagine that if trump

a done anything like this there would be huge scandal of the. u.k. could soon become the 1st country to carry out so-called challenge trials with a coronavirus vaccine it would involve deliberately exposing volunteers to the live virus for the financial times people working on the project saying that the trials could start in january at a quarantine facility in london volunteers will reportedly receive a vaccine and then a dose of the actual virus a month later the british government will confirm details of the scheme but has said that it's open to conducting such studies. we're watching with partners to understand how we might collaborate on the potential development of a covert 1000 facts in 3 human challenge studies. ok with us to discuss it now then is associate professor of cellular microbiology dr simon clarke from reading university also a political commentator and radio host under a walker both gentlemen welcome to the program dr clog how unusual is it to expose

a volunteer to a vaccine like this when there isn't an effective or really effective treatment for cove it. well it's quite unusual of course if we had effective treatments the rush for a back seat would come it wouldn't be so it wouldn't be so strong. nolte's optimal and optimal way of doing it ideally you'd let the virus normally but needs must when the devil groin backs are against the wall on this and we've really got to be able to come up with a vaccine in pretty short order so i think some people think this is a way of doing it and dry as dr clarke said that desperate times call for desperate measures and plenty of volunteers lining up for this it's a good thing isn't. well without a doubt i mean what we've got to remember is coronaviruses ses not a particularly dangerous disease if you think about it if i were to now i take

a test and test positive for corona virus and that $28.00 days later job positive played without a parachute my cause of death would be listed as a coronavirus and so you have people who die of heart attacks least it is die of kuroda virus you have people who die of cancer this year just die of crow device you even have people who die road traffic accidents least it is dying of crowbars and yes i think it was friday a total of 27 people in the united kingdom were listed as having died of corona virus so the figures are extremely dog jay but more importantly than not what has happened age these figures of wound up public policy because we are in a position at the moment where perhaps i think it's probably true in bulk we might be old world war 2000000 pounds cost of the occult debate. i personally affected with the coronavirus it has absolutely gone crazy and the quicker we can calm down the medical profession the backed up and i'm going to tell you why we didn't tell

you wipe out the blow but we have delayed 50000 people from cancer care and only 40000 people have died of crowbars that died. mitch to the public from the lock downs that we've seen will fall far outstrip the 27 people pad guy who died broke a hoxton electrical had died rotavirus that's a doctor talk answer that is part of this rush to get an effective vaccine and effective treatments more economic the medical. so it's been said i don't see the 2 is mutually exclusive i don't see what the problem is i mean you know we can quibble over numbers and when you put on somebody's death certificate the fact is the hospital in this country in the spring would come by lots and lots of people who were seriously ill many of them were literally unable to breathe and needed the attention of intensive care not men. to the hospital as well unable to discharge their normal case loads and that was the basic problem simply isn't true this is

simply untrue look the reason why hospitals are all now able to discharge their normal caseload is because the government is still obsessed with the neil ferguson model that says a quarter of a 1000000 people are going to die the hospitals and effectively been closed down in order to leave empty wards ready for this rush of coronavirus patients that hasn't happened let's talk about the nightingale hospital and loaded what was it 3000 beds 17 of them and is not being used the government needs to accept the neil ferguson model and remember neil ferguson resigned in disgrace over the quarter 1000000000 prediction that figure is wrong and yet we are still creating to let you know we are talking about shutting down the operative to call the big over $27.00 deaths per day and even those $27.00 that's probably all corroded r.-s. the world has gone mad. dr clark is there regarded problem that in a trial like this that it's all going to be healthy young people taking part in

tightly controlled conditions if it does go ahead but if they then say yes this vaccine is pretty good let's get it out there you don't know what the effect is on say people over 50 with an underlying health problem you know they may know that it's once a corona virus that is that is part of the problem and that's why it's better to let people get the virus naturally rather than experimentally infect. you know it's a sub optimal way of doing the trials no 2 ways about it. andre you talk about the economic impact there if this vaccine does get out there as a result of these kind of trials presumably that's going to be a good thing for you isn't it if it's the attitude of the something that the economy needs and the thing that we can do to calm down the extremists in the government and the extremists in the better core profession is going to be a good thing because look you know we are talking about potentially what was it a 20.4 percent drop in the british economy in april we were prepared we were told there would be a v. shaped recession well of course that didn't happen we only regained about half of

the damage to g.d.p. caused by the lock down you know we are talking about potentially you know 50000000000 pounds a month big lost over days on it we are talking i think in the ad you'll be talking about 5 or chad 1000000 per healthy person who dies of coronavirus as a cost for the call to make as what they don't tell you is people with all the heart lying health breast what does it mean if somebody stop it if a cop was about to be dead by christmas eve the white gentleman we're going to leave it there dr simon clarke andre walker thanks for joining us on the program thank you. that's all from the moscow do train for this hour get more 247 news alerts on twitter i know it's a doll called for now though from a column right thanks for watching.

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